Finance Assurance Manager

5 days ago


Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Allwyn UK Full time
About Allwyn UK

We are a leading multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence in several countries. In the UK, we operate the National Lottery with a 10-year license that started in 2024.

We strive to create one of the UK's most inclusive organizations, where people can bring their best selves to work every day, for the benefit of good causes.

Our purpose and values are at the heart of everything we do. We aim to build a bigger, better, and safer National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.

Role Purpose

We operate a Three Lines of Defense model:

  • First line: Functional Management & Staff
  • Second line: Functional and Central Compliance and Risk & Assurance
  • Third Line: Internal Audit

You will be part of the second-line Finance and Trust functional assurance and compliance team, working closely with Senior Finance Function management and staff.

The Finance and Trust function includes:

  • Trust and Gaming
  • Treasury
  • Finance Operations
  • Commercial Finance
  • Strategy and Insight
  • Financial Accounting
  • Procurement
  • Tax

Reporting into the Senior Assurance Manager: Finance and Trust, you will also have a close relationship with the Head of Enterprise Risk & Oversight and her team, as well as the Internal audit team and wider central Assurance function.

Key Responsibilities
  • Support the Senior Assurance Manager: Finance and Trust in embedding the Assurance, Compliance, and Risk frameworks and objectives across Finance and Trust.
  • Perform extensive second-line activity over the Trust arrangement, which manages player funds as an independent team from the Treasury and Trust teams.
  • Support the Senior Assurance Manager to run a key governance forum, the Funds Protection Forum, to ensure it meets regulatory and governance requirements.
  • Support the Finance Director and the Senior Assurance Manager: Finance and Trust, and wider Finance teams to ensure the effective implementation, execution, and monitoring of the wider National Lottery license conditions, Matters to be protected, Trust Deed, and Fund Protection policies.
Key Measures of Success
  • Operating with integrity and staying independent
  • Assurance activities are supported by adequate documentation, peer reviews, and quality checks
  • Finance team risk register is up to date and has appropriate sign-off as scheduled
  • Finance team self-assessment activity is up to date and completed as scheduled
  • Delivery of activity to support Outcomes-Based Decision Making (OBDM) and wider business assurance requirements
  • No surprises – all assurance activities, plans, and projects are communicated clearly and in a timely manner with effective progress tracking and risk monitoring
  • Controls, compliance, and assurance culture is embedded in the psyche of finance colleagues
Requirements
  • Strong understanding of finance and compliance – a qualified ACA or ACCA accountant with an audit and/or compliance, regulatory, and assurance background would be preferred
  • Bright, highly analytical, and intellectually agile, able to learn and manage complexity quickly
  • High level of integrity and independence while also able to successfully partner with the business in meaningful ways through building trusting relationships and connections
  • A strong collaborator, influencer, listener, to build consensus and a constructive working relationship across the organization
  • Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and executive presence, and ability to influence a variety of internal and external stakeholders
  • Good commercial acumen and strategic mindset
  • Demonstrate some experience of leadership and operating with senior stakeholders within Risk, Compliance, and/or Internal Audit
  • Experience of developing and leading a team to deliver the company's goals
  • High level of personal integrity and ability to maintain independence while also building strong and impactful relationships across Finance, Central Assurance, Risk Compliance, and Internal audit teams and various Governance Committees


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